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We are a group of experienced poets based near the Scottish east coast. We run online masterclasses, and post here on poetry, poetics and the writing life.

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Being Frustrated With One of the Greats

In this week’s Broken Compass interview, Jeremy Wikeley has W.H. Auden as the writer he changed his mind most about. Jeremy – me too. My PhD was on poets and libretti, which took in Auden and his partnerships, primarily his (and Chester Kal...

3 days ago
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On Lerner, Garner and Hugo – our spring reading part II

Karen Solie

Literature is preoccupied with love. What makes love compelling is what makes it difficult to write. Ben Lerner’s work, it seems to me, is interested in this problem. His characters, his poems’ speakers, even some of the invest...

10 days ago
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Our Spring Reading: Part I

Kathleen Jamie

I’m presently in Barra, and brought with me A History of Scotland’s Landscapes, by Fiona Watson with Piers Dixon. I’ve always been fascinated by the evidence of the past and change in the landscape. That said, ‘evidence of t...

17 days ago
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The Vulnerability of Precious Things

Simone Weil was, to all who knew her, intense. Over the course of her shortened life, she gave herself up to an evolving sequence of political, ethical and mystical philosophies, and pushed herself and her body to great physical extremes in...

24 days ago
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Learning from Dunn

We’ve been thinking a lot about the poetry of Douglas Dunn recently, especially Douglas’s superb and undervalued pre-Elegies poems. This seemed a good excuse to give this little essay a second airing; it appeared in a recent-ish issue of Th...

a month ago
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  • North Sea Poets

    A collective of poets all based near the east coast of Scotland, posting here on poetry, poetics and the writing life. The group comprises Kathleen Jamie, Karen Solie, Don Paterson, Lisa Brockwell, Niall Campbell, Lesley Harrison and John Glenday.

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  • Andrew Neilson

    Dishevelled wandering star. I occasionally guest on other people's Substacks. One half of Bad Lilies badlilies.uk My debut poetry collection, Little Griefs, is out now: https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/little-griefs-by-andrew-neilson

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